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Anti zionistic demonstrations by Jews are rare in Belgium and the exclusion of a Neturei Karta member from a synagogue in Antwerp two years ago was a source of controversy.
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Okay, here we go again! This is really getting sad. I am so sick and tired of enduring the stupidity of these constant suggestions that President Obama is not entitled to any and every benefit, advantage and perk of the office of the president of the United States that every other President before him has had — including using Air Force One during his campaign for re-election.
So now, Reince Priebus (ugh, that name), who is Chairman of the RNC (Republican National Committee) has filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Office saying that President Obama has “crossed the line” by campaigning for re-election on Air Force One and that he may escalate his complaint to the Federal Election Commission. Really???
This kind of silliness should be knocked down where it stands and any responsible media person would and should. The benefit that the RNC gets is that even if they know their complaint won’t go anywhere, just having the media discussing it nonstop on national TV gets the idea in the minds of some voters that there is some kind of Obama taxpayer mischief going on — and that’s all they need and want, and before you know it, voila, the media has unwittingly done their job for them! Bravo, RNC!
I truly don’t recall hearing this much ruckus about how much it cost for George W. Bush to fly to Crawford, Texas every other month during his presidency but for some reason replica watches, people have decided to count nickels and dimes every time the current president even looks at Air Force One.
And this has been an ongoing diatribe. First we had the “Obama shouldn’t be going on vacations” tantrums. Then, there were the “First Lady and her daughters shouldn’t be going on vacations” tantrums. Then we had the “Obama shouldn’t be playing golf” tantrums. Recently, there were the “Presidents shouldn’t be going on talk shows” tantrums. Now, we have come to our favorite part of the show, the “Obama shouldn’t be using Air Force One to campaign for re-election” tantrums.
And to my dismay replica watches, even some in the so-called mainstream media have picked up the right-wing mantra and started talking about how much it costs for President Obama to fly on Air Force One. I guess Nixon, Reagan, George Bush, Sr. and George Bush, Jr. all fundraised and campaigned for re-election on Southwest Airlines!
This kind of discussion has taken us from silly season to dumb dailies! What these small-minded people are missing in their childish rants is that the president is ALWAYS the president, whether he is traveling to a summit in Japan or going on vacation or flying to a campaign event … he’s still the president! He does not stop being president just because he is campaigning for re-election (again, as all other presidents have done before him). He still needs to be in touch with world leaders, he still needs access to his military personnel, he still needs to stay connected to crucial cabinet members (i.e. Secretaries of State, Defense, Treasury, etc.). This is not new; this is not a surprise; it’s one of the benefits of the job. Air Force One is the president of the United States’ only mode of airplane transportation. Use of the plane is built into the presidential budget like his meals, rent and utilities, which by the way is my guess for the next RNC target: Should the president really live in the White House while he’s campaigning? Wait for it — it’s coming!
Re-election campaigning is something that has been going on through generations of presidents, but for some reason, we want to constantly scrutinize President Obama for doing things every other president of the United States has done. Every other president has taken vacations, (almost) every other president has played golf, and every other president has traveled on Air Force One while fundraising and campaigning for re-election, but it’s somehow wrong for Barack Obama. Why?
Barack Obama is the first president to run for re-election in the age of Citizens United and as such he may in fact travel a bit more for campaign/fundraising trips because he has a whole lot more to fight against than past presidents. But the fact is that there are plenty of legitimate topics to discuss during this election season, (i.e. jobs, unemployment, economy, Afghanistan, Middle East, Iran, North Korea, health care, gas prices, education, Congress, environment, immigration, crime, etc.). I would hope that the media would concentrate on these topics and not allow itself to be used to make a mini-scandal out of this, and other nonissues, during such an important election. We already know that the RNC and right-wingers will use any and every tactic in the book to try to throw a lay-up against President Obama cheap replica watches, I just hope the media doesn’t give them the assist!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is examining whether JPMorgan Chase & Co is taking risks elsewhere in the bank similar to the botched trading strategy that could cost the bank more than $2 billion, a Fed spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Regulators and bank officials are determining the exact details behind trades JPMorgan says were intended as hedges against credit risk but that could wind up costing the bank more than $2 billion. The bank announced the losses last week.
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The Fed is the lead regulator for the broader bank holding company and all its units while the OCC has responsibility for overseeing the bank, including the Chief Investment Office where the losses occurred.
“The OCC is examining the bank’s activities and is in continuous dialogue with bank personnel and other regulatory colleagues as we evaluate details related to the specific transactions as well as the surrounding risk management processes that resulted in this unexpected loss,” an OCC spokesman said in a statement.
The OCC said it does not consider the losses to be a threat to the stability of JPMorgan.
The Fed spokeswoman pointed out that JPMorgan was able to suffer much deeper losses and still remain solvent under a stress test that large U.S. banks were put under by the Fed earlier this year.
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U.S. banks have complained that some new capital requirements go too far and will force them to cut back on their lending.
(Reporting By Jonathan Spicer and Dave Clarke; Editing by Gary Hill)
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Tehran - A U.N. nuclear inspector from South Korea was killed and a colleague was injured in a car crash Tuesday near a reactor site in central Iran, state media and the nuclear watchdog agency said.
Iran’s state TV said the South Korean inspector was thrown from of the car. He was not wearing a seat belt, the report said, quoting police. The two inspectors were riding in the backseat of the car.
The TV showed video of the other inspector in a hospital bed, not seriously injured. It said the driver, who lost control of the car, was also slightly injured.
State TV showed video of the heavily damaged vehicle.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement it was in touch with the inspectors’ families and Iranian authorities.
The IAEA did not name the inspector killed in the crash, but Iran’s official IRNA news agency identified as Seo Ok-Seok from South Korea.
IRNA said the inspectors’ car overturned near a heavy water reactor being built in Khondab, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Tehran.
Iran has said the reactor — part of the Arak complex — will be used to produce isotopes for medical and industrial uses. The U.S. and others suspect that spent fuel from the reactors could be reprocessed into plutonium for a nuclear warhead. Iran denies it seeks nuclear weapons.
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The incident comes ahead of a new round of technical discussions between Tehran and the IAEA to be held in Vienna beginning Sunday. Higher-level negotiations also are planned later this month in Baghdad between envoys from Iran and six world powers, including the United States.
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Iran’s nuclear agency issued a statement offering condolences to the nuclear watchdog as well as the victim’s family.
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U.S. District Judge James Robart has just about had it with Microsoft, Motorola and their pitched patent battle. Remarking on the dispute Monday after suffering through three hours of oral arguments, Robart laid into both companies for blurring the line between business negotiation and litigation.
“The court is well aware that it is being played as a pawn in a global industry-wide business negotiation,” Robart lamented after reserving judgment on the motions of Microsoft and Motorola for a later date. “The conduct of both Motorola and Microsoft has been driven by an attempt to secure commercial advantage, and to an outsider looking in Buy Chloe Dresses, it has been arbitrary, it has been arrogant and frankly it appears to be based on hubris.”
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Markets worldwide, including Germany’s, have been affected by the financial crisis
As the European credit crisis deepens, several foreign leaders are blaming the crisis on the United States. German finance minister Peer Steinbrück says, “The origin and the center of gravity of the problem is clearly in the U.S.,” whose system is less “robust” than its German counterpart. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says, “Everything happening now in the economic and financial sphere began in the United States.” Is the European credit crisis America’s fault?
No. The current financial crisis began with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, which was certainly largest in the United States. But that market depended on a vast network of international investors, all of whom bear some responsibility for what’s happened.
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Assigning blame—an essential part of any grieving process—requires some history. During the Great Depression, the U.S. government decided it should be easier for people with low incomes to buy houses. Fannie Mae was created to buy mortgages from banks so that smaller banks didn’t have to carry the entire debt burden on their own. Eventually, two things happened: Fannie Mae started buying riskier “subprime” mortgages, which were still rated AAA or “safe” by ratings agencies. It also started packaging these mortgages as securities, chopping them up, and selling them to other investors, who resold them to other investors, and so on—a process called securitization. Many of these investors were foreign companies, banks, and governments. (The United States’ current account deficit is about 6 percent of the GDP, which means the country gets about $1 trillion in foreign loans every year.) Risky practices like credit default swaps, in which investors promise to support each other in case someone goes bankrupt, started in the United States but soon became the norm across the world. Mortgage-backed securities were dangerous and people knew it, but American housing prices continued to climb, so investors bought them, anyway. The result was an international Tattoo Supplies, interdependent system in which all markets leaned on other markets for stability. So when the U.S. mortgage market collapsed, everyone else’s followed.
That doesn’t mean Europe would have survived had it not been for us irresponsible Yanks. Several European countries, particularly England, Ireland, and Spain, had their own housing bubbles that burst around the same time as ours. (Others, such as Germany Tattoo Supplies, had stable housing markets.) These bubbles were exacerbated by Europe-specific factors. For example, even as housing prices increased by as much as 10 percent a year in Spain, the European Central Bank set interest rates appropriate for the entire European Union, where prices were increasing much more slowly. As a result, local bubbles expanded faster than usual. Another example: A state-owned German bank held billions in mortgage-backed securities, even though they weren’t safe. The risk was therefore endorsed at home—not the result of an American knife held to European throats. Other structural problems have led to recent collapses: The failure of several Icelandic banks can be traced in part to their size—their assets were 10 times the country’s GDP. Total U.S.-bank assets, by comparison, are far less than our GDP.
So why did the bubble burst here first? For one thing, we’ve got the biggest subprime housing market in the world. Also, the riskiest mortgages were always bought and sold in the United States; high-wire investment tactics like “toggle bonds” and “covenant light” loans have been common in recent years. So you might blame American investors for taking bigger risks than their foreign counterparts. But the difference is comparable to playing Russian roulette with a six-chamber versus a seven-chamber revolver.
Other scapegoats include ratings agencies, which knowingly gave subprime mortgages AAA ratings. The biggest ones—Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s, and Fitch—are all based in the United States. The problem with blaming them is that most investors knew their ratings were bunk but bought the securities, anyway. You could blame Congress, too, for insufficient regulation. But, in fact, many European housing markets are just as loosely governed as the U.S. market.
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Explainer thanks Andrew Caplin of New York University and Jonathan Wright of Johns Hopkins University.
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Any talk of brands for sale in the auto industry invariably includes a Chinese automaker as one potential bidder. As such, it’s not surprising to hear that Chinese automaker Geely is reportedly in the running to buy Volvo from Ford. Chinese media, however, have begun reporting that Geely has actually signed a deal with the Dearborn-based automaker to buy the last remaining brand from Ford’s now-defunct Premium Auto Group.
Has it actually happened? Both Ford and Volvo have made no official statements that would confirm what’s being reported in the Chinese media. Official confirmations usually come after a deal has been widely reported in the media, though. However, the only outlets reporting this rumor are from China. We haven’t heard a peep from any Swedish-based news organizations Cheap Herve Leger gown, which is surprising considering they were on the ball last week reporting that Koenigsegg had struck a deal with General Motors to buy Sweden’s other big auto brand Buy White Herve leger, Saab.
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